The Roman Catholic Church is constantly evolving, with the exception of a constant look at the long -term survival claim and hopefully prevalence: in every pope’s deed, the Cardinal Conclave essentially decides whether or not it wishes to continue or rupture. He himself was elected in 2013 as a discontinuity option at a time when the Roman Catholic Church was tested by scandals and was considered necessary to distant distancing from Italian introspection and Eurocentric conservatism. The election of a Latin American was, moreover, that the heart of Roman Catholicism beats demographically and spiritually in the world south.
of the Roman Catholic Church through spontaneous performances based on his rushing and wise personality. With the power of morality and the image, he re -established what it means to be a Pope: he stayed in a hostel instead of a palace, preferred orthopedic footwear instead of the iconic reds, washed the feet of a Muslim woman by updating the sink of Jesus. I judge »when conventional ethics required condemnation, he was surrounding the planet” to the end “, even when he needed to use a wheelchair. If the “papal primacy” received the theological investment that the Pope is (inversely) the “deacon of the deacons” (Servus Servorum), we must have Pope Francis offered impressive images to fill an empty shell.
The turn to the synodality
Institutional changes, however, have often remained incomplete. The major achievement is the shift to the Synod in the administration of the Roman Catholic Church and even with an increased role of women. However, the relevant reform program remained pending at the time of its event. Francis as a “point of view” with lovers and hates could only command. “It was because of the event, and I work with the first male beginning”to paraphrase Thucydides.
Of the 135 Cardinals of Conclavium, the vast majority are defined by Franciscan, often by remote countries. In presumption of progressives, they have not been able to unite by a bond of intense consultation, so that their Houses are considered undiagnosed. In terms of control of Roman Catholic clergy on abuse, conversely, Franciscus was compared to set up more effective control mechanisms, but their implementation remained unfinished.
We can remember from Franciscan his thirst for peace, his intellectual curiosity to learn from everyone, and especially from the humble, the vitality with which he re -established the simple and sweet Jesus, the practical certificate that love is identified with joy. But how will the Church’s contradictions of the Church solve a successor who may be deprived of the charismatic personality with the spontaneous performance?
Main Competitors Protestants
Let us not forget that the Conclavian is an independent body, which is not easy to be influenced by the will of the neo -conservatives, nor by those who “outside the walls” want a popular “sequel” of Francis, possibly from another exotic. There are also the trivial criteria: the stabilizing administration, the reduction of financial deficits, the achievement of intercontinental compromises. It remains the fact that the future of Roman Catholicism is more judged in Asia, Africa and Latin America with the main competitors of the Evangelical Protestants and not some traditional religion. Pope Franciscus was listening at the same time the weak at the geopolitical level, but also the weak within societies, according to social liberalism. This personal composition is not self -evident, as many of the regional communities bid on conservatism.
Pope Francis’ spiritual legacy includes the care of immigrants, multiculturalism, ecological vigilance, the search for peace and social justice, but also the care of social minorities, if necessary with pastoral improvisation and pluralism. Even in his last days, it was clear the difference that separated him from the identical and xenophobic Roman Catholicism of the American Vice -President Jay Di Vance with whom he had a meeting one day before his death. Except for the composition of Franciscan was often a personal unity of morality with an emphasis on spontaneous and amazing execution, without definitely realizing political solutions to the most difficult problems. In the absence of a personality of charismatic spontaneity who solved Gordian ties with the “knife of love”, it may be difficult for a successor to achieve a similarly traded composition in dilemmas that are increasingly acute. In addition, the needs create leaders to those who hear them.
